midnightstar

Since graduating from the Academy, life has been..interesting for Alisa, to say the least. She's been kept very busy, since she was upholding her promise to her mother on showing her the proper way to run the company, and it wasn't easy to put in those changes. Though it would have been a lot harder if she didn't have the support of those around her. But because of that, she hadn't been able to get time to get to visit Rean as much as she liked.

Translation: As much as she liked = every day. She did get to visit - or vice versa - at least on the weekend, and she talked to him almost every night thanks to the range on the ARCUS. Just as finished up for the night, she made her way up to the penthouse, glancing around to make sure she was alone (And you never know with Sharon) in order to take out her ARCUS once more and see if she could get a hold of Rean before bed. She was planning on seeing if he was in the area - alternatively, she was sure she could get away for a visit, if he wasn't busy.

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Then he would have to make it happen next time he visited or had her over for a visit. For now though Rean couldn't help but notice the waiter finally and pulled back with a start.

"Oh! The food is here." Rean exclaimed with a bashful cough in his fist as he allowed Alisa to pull away since they would have to use both hands to eat after all.

She jumped a little when Rean caught sight of the waiter, and she gave the poor man an embarrassed smile. Reluctantly pulling away from Rean and clearing her throat. "Sorry about that...! Oh it looks great!" She smiled as the man placed the beef rice in front of Rean, and the salad in front of Alisa.

"It's no trouble," the waiter grinned, "You two were .. rather distracted after all." He noted, a little teasingly as Alisa's face turned a little pink.

Rean's blush was a little lighter but still noticeable since yeah getting called out like that was just a teensy bit embarassing.

"The food looks amazing even before the first bite~" Rean complimented the dishes set down on the table with a polite smile

The waiter grinned, "Glad you think so. If you need anything else, just whistle." Not literally though - he's not going to be far regardless.

Alisa smiled, "Well, let's dig in!" She picked up her fork, her attention turning to the dish before her, and taking her first bite. "Mmh!~ It's delicious. Here, Rean." She started to spear some salad on her fork to offer to him - realized that feeding him in her home was VERY different from feeding him in public and sort of -halted-.

"Thank you." He smiled before turning to his own delicious dish taking a quick bite and humming in delight before Alisa decided to try feeding him from her own salad. Rean hesitated only for a second though before leaning over to pluck the food from her fork.

Alisa blushed a little, quickly turning back to her plate, "S-so what do you think?" Ahem, no one else noticed that right? Although uh. It seems like the staff were watching the couple out of the corner of their eyes, hiding their smiles.

The bartender waved over the waiter for a second, the two talking quickly and quietly. Perhaps plotting to sneak photos to Sharon.

They were totally being watched but Rean didn't give them any mind. Far more important to enjoy his perfect meal together with Alisa. He chewed a bit before swallowing with a big satisfied smile.

"You were right! The salad really is amazing! Here why don't you try some of mine then~?" Yep he's going to do the same thing Alisa did for him. Hope everyone's dentist is free of appointments.

This was definitely on par with tooth rotting cuteness. In fact one of the patrons of the bar quietly excused himself because he couldn't take the cute scene any longer.

Alisa looked surprised when Rean meant to do the same for her, but she took him up on the offer, blushing lightly as she taste-tested some of the beef, "..Mmmm! It really is good!" Careful there Alisa, you almost spoke with your mouth full! She licked a bit of rice off of her lips before giggling a little, "I've never had that dish before."

Too bad the two of them seemed to already be trapped in their own little world all over again as Rean smiled softly seeing Alisa's adorably cute reaction.

"Isn't it? Master Ka Fai introduced me to this dish actually. Though the one he had me taste had a slightly stronger flavor to it. He never did tell me what the secret ingredient was." Probably something alcoholic.

Alisa's smile softened, "You've talked about your Master a lot in the time I've known you. I hope I can meet him one day. I'd love to meet someone who influenced you so much."

Master Ka Fai would probably back the relationship between the two of them too. In fact most of their friends would. Even Elise would - once she got over her jealousy.

"ahahaha well I hope I'll get the chance to introduce you to him. Though he does a lot of traveling and most of it without any kind of warning." A wandering sword hermit just as shis reputation says.

Oh he definitely would. Odds were he'd be even worse than Gwyn when it came to the commentary and support.

"Do you think you'd ever want to do that?" Alisa asked curiously, taking another bite of her salad, before offering him another bite as well. One for her, one for him! She..maybe have totally forgotten where she was, but the staff were getting plenty of photo opportunities here.

"Hm? Do you mean wander the land like him?" That was a sudden question to ask. But he didn't even have to think on that since Rean already had his answer.

"No I don't think that would suit my style. Especially not now." After all he wanted to spend so much more time with Alisa if he could.

It was a sudden - and random - question to ask, but the thought had occurred to her. If the war ended and Rean was able to do whatever he wanted... "What would you want to do then?" She asked curiously. Oblivious to the most obvious of things he might want to do.

Maybe do something like what Sara and Toval have been, and be a Bracer - they could open a guild branch in Roer. Or maybe he'd want to eventually go back home to Ymir -- but she was careful not to talk about his home. Heck, there was no Guild branch in Trista either, for that matter. The dorm could be converted into one.

Rean turned a quizzical brow up at Alisa. Wait she really didn't know what he'd answer? Frankly the most he wanted was to get out from his father's yoke but that was being idealistic at best.

"Mmmm I have been thinking about trying my hand at being an instructor actually. But that's just a loose idea really." Being a Bracer would certainly be another option but that would involve restoring the Bracer guild in Erebonia first and he wasn't sure he was up for that task since it would involve going against his bastard of a father yet again. Still if it was just being an instructor he would still have time to drop by Roer. More so than he does now anyway.

She had an idea, but she would have rather heard it from him himself. Of course getting away from his father was ideal. Alisa smiled softly at that, "I think you'd be a really good instructor, Rean. Just like Instructor Sara was. Although she had some ... really unusual teaching methods, considering her background it makes sense." Of course she'd praise Rean in every aspect she could - maybe it'd counteract the blame he always hits himself with.

"Ahahaha well all things considered she IS the reason everyone grew as much as they did under her study. Still I certainly don't plan to emulate everything about her teaching method." Especially given he doubted he would have the clout to do the field studies as frequently or extensively as they did under the care of the board of DIrectors and Prince Olivert.

"Yeah, that's true. I mean, she was pretty strange- - still is, come to think of it. But she's still our reliable teacher. We wouldn't have overcome half of what we did without her teaching." Though she laughs a little at the latter. "Yeah, and teaching aside, try not to emulate certain OTHER of her oh so charming quirks." She eyed him cautiously. Light social drinks is one thing, but she wouldn't want to see him knocking back booze like a pro the way Sara did! ~~Even if he would have EVERY reason to want to do so in the future~~

"Hahahaha of course I'm not going to take after her in that department." ~~Unless something horrific and traumatic pushes him to drink in which case yeeaaaah he might go for that coping mechanism~~

"Here do you want another bite?" He said presenting another morsel of his dish to ALisa before she could think of doing th same back at him.

Dern, he beat her to it! Well that just meant she would have to press her salad at him herself. "Um--s, sure!" As far as she was concerned they could be chatting back at the penthouse, she was just that comfortable around Rean. And in her own little world in which only he is an occupant. Though she was more than halfway done with her salad. She happily took a bite of the stew, brushing off some rice that was still on her lips and sighed, so completely content. It was like the war couldn't be further away from them. It may as well not even exist. "Here, do you want the rest?" She pushed her salad towards him. She didn't want to stuff herself and have no room for the ice cream!

But of course he'd beat her to it. Multitasking was sort of his forte. How else could he help out Towa as often as he did back in their school days.

Still he was quite happy to have her pluck the food from his fork with a bright smile. This was just so perfect and warm of a moment he wished it could go on forever.

"Oh are you sure?" He certainly had room to take the salad off her plate. Even literally.

Alisa smiled, nodding, "I'm sure. I'd hate to stuff myself on the salad and then not be able to have the ice cream. That'd be criminal!" She jokes lightly, "Besides, they have a new flavor I've been dying to try out. Pistachio chocolate chip." For a second she looks guilty, "I mean.. it's probably REALLY high in calori, but I can work that off."

He just gave Alisa a quick funny look but in the end accepted her reasoning with little challenge on his part.

"Alright then. I'll take it off your hands~ But if you change your mind jut let me know?" Yep totally going to ignore the potential interpretation about working the calories off.

S-she meant by going out and fighting monsters or doing general exercise! Though if Sharon or Gwyn were present, or even Angelica, they would have teased her mercilessly about that choice of wording. "I will, I promise." She has no intention of doing that - she was going to get the chance to just watch him. Hopefully he could handle her looking at him with sheer adoration the entire time. "It's good, right?" She beamed, resting her chin in her hands.

She might have but teasing trolls would twist and tease that wording so easily. Rean closer his eyes with a soft chuckle before nodding imply.

"Yes it's fine. Leave it to me then~"